[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

I have the stock 160 gig that came with my Dual 2GHz G5. I want to get anther one the exact same size one to backup nightly to.

I don't know what I have now other than model "ST3160023AS"

I want to avoid Maxtor as I haven't had much luck with them, I also want a QUITE hard drive, 7200 RPM is a must.

Any suggestions? (a 3-5 year warranty would be great).

[Squozen]

You've got a Seagate. Get another. They're one of the quiestest around, 7200RPM and have a 5-year warranty.

[Big Mac]

All you had to do was enter the string into Google to find out what type of drive it is. I happen to have the same one and thought about picking up an additional one recently.

[OreoCookie]

The best bang for the buck right now are 250 gig drives.

[Chito]

I have the same Seagate drive in my G5, so I bought another and put them in a RAID array.

[discotronic]

I purchased a WD 200GB recently. It is a very quiet drive. It has a 3 year warranty and the price is right. Here is a link:

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[Eug Wanker]

Just get another Seagate, since that's what you have now. The best value are the 200 and 250 MB drives.

I'm not sure if the 250GB ST-3250823AS Barracuda 7200.8 SATA Hard Disk (CAD$171) is quieter than the Seagate 200GB(8MB CACHE) Serial-ATA 150 Hard Disk (OEM) (CAD$138), but I'd probably just get the 250 GB drive though, since you get 50 GB more for only $33. You could partition the 250 GB drive into 160 GB and 90 GB. Use the 160 GB partition for your nightly backup, and the other 90 GB partition for your Photoshop scratch.

BTW, I've had IBM, Seagate, Maxtor, and Western Digital drives all die on me at some point.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
not sure if the 250GB ST-3250823AS Barracuda 7200.8 SATA Hard Disk (CAD$171) is quieter than the Seagate 200GB(8MB CACHE) Serial-ATA 150 Hard Disk (OEM) (CAD$138), but I'd probably just get the 250 GB drive though, since you get 50 GB more for only $33. You could partition the 250 GB drive into 160 GB and 90 GB. Use the 160 GB partition for your nightly backup, and the other 90 GB partition for your Photoshop scratch.

What would the point be of partitioning? I don't get it.

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
What would the point be of partitioning? I don't get it.

Your original 160 MB drive would still be your primary drive.

The 160 GB partition of the new drive would be your backup drive.

The 80-90 GB partition of the new drive would be your Photoshop scratch. It's always good to have your scratch space on a separate drive from your primary drive.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
The 80-90 GB partition of the new drive would be your Photoshop scratch. It's always good to have your scratch space on a separate drive from your primary drive.

Why though? I mean it is not giving a speed increase as it is on the same drive plus I am writing off 80 gigs to something that might only take 10 gigs. I can't see fragmentation being an issue.

At any rate I found a segate drive at 160 gigs for $130 CAN which sounds pretty good to me.

[Luca Rescigno]

Seagate 160 GB 7200 RPM SATA w/ Native Command Queueing $110 CAN

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Why though? I mean it is not giving a speed increase as it is on the same drive plus I am writing off 80 gigs to something that might only take 10 gigs. I can't see fragmentation being an issue.

At any rate I found a segate drive at 160 gigs for $130 CAN which sounds pretty good to me.

Arrgghhh!!! The scratch is on a different drive than your boot drive.

Drive 0 - Original Apple 160 GB drive <-- This is your OS X boot drive.
Drive 1 - New 250 GB drive, with 80 GB Photoshop scratch partition <-- You won't use your backup and scratch at the same time.

P.S. A 250 GB Seagate is $171.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Arrgghhh!!! The scratch is on a different drive than your boot drive.

Drive 0 - Original Apple 160 GB drive <-- This is your OS X boot drive.
Drive 1 - New 250 GB drive, with 80 GB Photoshop scratch partition <-- You won't use your backup and scratch at the same time.

P.S. A 250 GB Seagate is $171.

Arg, yes I get what you are saying. What I am asking is what is the point of partitioning the second drive? Why allocate a whooping 80 gigs to photoshop scratch when I can leave it unpartitioned and tell photoshop to use the second drive AND use that drive for backups. Partitioning it will not increase the speed.

[OreoCookie]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Arg, yes I get what you are saying. What I am asking is what is the point of partitioning the second drive? Why allocate a whooping 80 gigs to photoshop scratch when I can leave it unpartitioned and tell photoshop to use the second drive AND use that drive for backups. Partitioning it will not increase the speed.

Yes, but you were explicitly talking about a 160 gig drive, so we (at least I) thought you wanted to do some kind of 1-to-1 backup (keeping files in sync).

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by OreoCookie:
Yes, but you were explicitly talking about a 160 gig drive, so we (at least I) thought you wanted to do some kind of 1-to-1 backup (keeping files in sync).

Yes, this is what I was thinking. I use Carbon Copy Cloner for this purpose.

Also, for a scratch it's nice to have a dedicated partition. You could always buy a 200 GB drive, and make a 40 GB scratch or something, to save a few bux. I was thinking 80 GB cuz that's what I'd like to have, for iMovie/iDVD.

[V]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:


At any rate I found a segate drive at 160 gigs for $130 CAN which sounds pretty good to me.

Where did you find it?

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by V:
Where did you find it?

http://sonnam.com/

At any rate it didn't want to mirror the whole drive, just about 50 gigs of files.

[Kristoff]

Depends what your goal is.

I just bought a refurb dual 1.8 and it came with an 80 GB diamond max.

I quickly replaced it with two Western Digital RAPTOR 10,000 RPM SATA drives.
They are the fastest SATA drives on the market--outperforming even some SCSI drives.
They have a 5 year warranty and are designed for 24/7 use. They are more expensive, but I value my data, so it was worth it to me. Speed and life expectancy are the most important things to me.

Persistent storage devices represent the single biggest bottleneck in a computer system.
If you want to optimize performance go for the fastest drive out there.

If you just want a big ass hard disk, then it doesn't matter much what you get, because they're all the same. Personally, I'd avoid anything in the IBM/Hitachi Deathstar line.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
P.S. A 250 GB Seagate is $171.

Where you find this? Today www.sonnam.com told me that the largest Seagate has is 200 megs for $159.

[chris v]

These are American $ but the best prices I've seen.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-...3.5-SerialATA/